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Battle For the Planet of the Apes (1973) is the fifth and final entry in the Planet of the Apes series. It was directed by J. Lee Thompson.

Set in flashback to the turn of the 21st century, this sequel focuses on the ape leader, Caesar (Roddy McDowall), about ten years after he led the ape revolution in the previous film, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
. In this post-nuclear war society, Caesar tries to cultivate peace between his simian peers and the surviving remains of humanity. Gorilla leader Aldo (Claude Akins), however, wants nothing to do with this, as it reminds him of his former enslavement, so he plots Caesar's overthrow and doom, as do a band of mutated humans from their former city of the last film who want to reclaim Earth and destroy the entire ape society.

Towards the end of the movie, however, Aldo and the human mutants are overthrown. The apes and humans then decide to coexist with one another and they begin to make a new society.

It turns out that the story is being told by an elderly ape (the Great Lawgiver, played by John Huston, who has a statue in the first two films) over 600 years later to a group of young humans and apes. It is left ambiguous as to whether the ape-dominated society as seen in the first film, and the eventual destruction of Earth as seen in the second, will actually come to pass. However, as this film takes place after a nuclear war has nearly wiped out civilization, at least one major element of the first film still comes to pass.

Category:1973 films Category:Dystopian films Category:Post-apocalyptic science fiction films Category:Planet of the Apes

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